Don't like how they're going after Hillary Clinton for being "psycho-emotional" and on heavy tranquilizers. Killing that many people you know would take its toll on anyone.

Best Black Sabbath (Ozzy) song:

Used to think identity poltiics and victim/oppressor dynamics was mostly a calling card of the left. But now I see it all over the place now from the right. Reminder: every person is an individual, responsible only for his own actions, not those of any other person. A society forgets this truth at its peril.

Unraveling The Puzzle Pleasure chases, Fourth Turning, zero point consciousness

Ate an oyster, and it was just a shell of its former self.

Posted for the first time in a while some real thoughts (not just work promotion or jokes on X). Most of my real thoughts are nostr only now not because I’m “good” or “based” or a purist, but because it’s the only place where it’s worthwhile: I've noticed a lot of people on my follow list (I have a list now) are posting Ws with respect to their positions the last few years. I take this as a W myself because I'm good at curating signal. But also it's a negative because they feel they *need* to do this which means the world still largely does not care that they were right when everyone else was wrong. I understand the strong temptation to post in all caps: FUCK YOU, I WAS RIGHT ABOUT ALMOST EVERYTHING, YOU NUTLESS MONKEYS! But that's only because, aside from my few followers who long ago realized the same, people just do not care they were wrong and in many cases conveniently memory-holed their wrongness and do not even consciously realize it. I had losers from my former industry call me a conspiracy theorist for saying Russiagate was unproven, that the lab leak was the base case, that mRNA mandates were wrong, that people masking outdoors were creepily compliant, that seed oils were bad, that chem trails were real, etc, etc. I want to scream from the rooftops: ADMIT I WAS RIGHT! APOLOGIZE FOR GASLIGHTING ME! But the world doesn't work like that. It doesn't give a shit. Your ONLY reward is to live a good life, to avoid *some* of the perils to which the normies will be subjected. And unfortunately you will not avoid all of them because you are bound by some of the same conditions they create and tolerate too. I'm also 95 percent sure Twitter has throttled my account. It doesn't deserve my posts, which it then owns, and there will be no vindication in the way you hope, only acknowledgment from the handful of people who were already awake. Most of my posting now is on nostr as a result. Its network effect is still small, some people there are still brainwashed, but I have ownership of the content, and I get paid directly by readers for the posts they like. There is no centralized algo, there is no throttling, there is no permission required to use it. I still keep this account around because I appreciate some of the people with whom I connect and accounts like @EthicalSkeptic , but really they should set up shop on nostr, opt out of the fake marketplace of ideas, gradually or all at once, and into the real one. Otherwise, no matter Twitter's network effect, you are still ultimately posting into the void, sending signal into a closed matrix designed to weaken and undermine it. And I can see this because despite being right about virtually everything, some of my best follows STILL feel the need to point it out. And I understand because I feel this same need, even though I know it's futile, pointless and will not lead to satisfaction.

One area I have to give my wife credit is laundry. I can wear the same fucking thing every day if I like.

Some things I would like to be able to build in no particular order: 1. A meta app that posts to and reads all social media sites of my choosing (check a box for each, have a default). I only via nostr extension log in once. It can also create a follows list from any social media so you curate for the best signal from any source, yet retain all your data and privacy. 2. An AL model that analyzes data — NFL games, market movements, etc. — and identifies anomalous results. When did the 10+ point underdog win outright, when did the company smash earnings, when did the bad team become good, the good team become bad, etc. that can discover the potential for surprises. A black swan conditions identifier, so to speak. 3. A dummy self-defense drone that can mimic sounds and lights of gunshots, a savage guard dog, etc. Someone comes to your door and a nasty-sounding rotweiler or pitbull starts throwing himself at the door and barking if it’s turned on. 4. A beautiful wood-carved box for your mantle in the entry way that has a cell-phone charger at its base (large enough for five phones) and a Faraday Cage built around the interior structure, so no signal can get in our out. You come into the house, drop off your phone, it remains charged for use when you leave, but it’s not spying on you or getting signal. 5. A real self-defense drone the size of a baseball that can be used as a blunt force object like a rock for potential invaders. Maybe 10 of them, controllable from your desktop if needed. 6. A portable, lightweight solar powered umbrella you can take to the beach or just outside on your lawn to create an outdoor workspace. 7. A powerful local AI you can manually update. Feed it personal medical information, add relevant studies, exclude captured sources, trim propaganda from it as you go. 8. A nostr-based home page where you can display all your posts, articles, media, curations, music, etc. The ultimate self-hosted web site that pulls in all your posts in one place no matter where else they show up. 9. A plug-and-play home music, video, podcast recording kit with optimal lighting and sound. An office-studio, so to speak with everything you need. 10. A dummy data-randomizer that can post fake personal details about you on various social media platforms to be picked up by search engines and sold to data brokers and by hackers with bogus addresses, emails and phone numbers where no one knows what the fuck is real and fake with respect to your personal information. Also would be good to be able to track in real time the “hits” to those addresses/numbers from scammers. 11. A dummy system with fake info behind Tor and a VPN with which you can click on any scam link without consequence and create useless leads for scammers. That way if you’re not sure you can just click away, check it out. Also software that generates fake conversations inside your phone so all the spyware is picking up 99% noise, no signal about you on your real devices. 12. A home lab kit you can use for various blood tests that doesn’t divulge your data. Basically the equivalent of a blood glucose monitor but that measures everything.

if you live off canned food by yourself in an underground bunker with no sunlight and no internet, you will surely have a lot of privacy. Privacy is something you want when needed, not as an end in itself. If you optimize for surviving the worst dystopian outcomes, you probably won’t be in great shape for more likely ones. And you might even be contributing to (and via the desire for cognitive consonance) helping the worst ones along.

In other words, stay frosty af when it comes to the “news” View quoted note →

Whatever the prevailing narrative is around the issue du jour, it’s probably bullshit, and the way people are framing it is the way they were manipulated to frame it. One solution is to think for yourself, but the better one is to decide what to think ABOUT for yourself. Be like the Amish during covid who were not watching TV. You can’t comply with something if you don’t even know what you’re being asked to comply with.

AI for me is mostly a disappointment. I try to give it simple tasks like sorting data into a spreadsheet format I can use (so I don’t have to do it manually) and after five corrective prompts, and a CSV file that doesn’t properly paste into Google docs, I give up and have to sort it manually. It’s a decent search engine right now, but not transforming anything I do yet.

Need some support from the nostr community. Wife sent me a really shitty text yesterday. Rather than verbal confirmation @Oscar Liss was over his bout of diarrhea, I received photographic "proof of work." This is the kind of dog shit message I never expected to encounter from the woman with whom I've chosen to spend my life. Please advise. And send sats. Many sats are needed to process this trauma. (Out of good taste, I will not re-post what she sent here.)